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I N N O V A T O R S & T R A I L B L A Z E R S Chief exeCutive OffiCer ReAl-Time innovATionS (RTi) StAn Schneider For the interview, see page 44 grow exactly as fast as you can hire great people. wHat is tHe best advice you received? AI is the most epic transition of our time. It promis- es to make nearly the entire planet run smarter and better. It truly offers unprecedented hope for the future. But AI alone can't do much of anything in a real-world system. That intelligence must connect to networks of sensors, motors, and operators to be useful. And that connection has to work exactly right every time. So, our product, in a nutshell, goes and gets the right data to the right place at the right time. It sounds hard, but it's really very simple: it makes it seems like any information is always available as if it were in local memory, even if that information physically lives across thousands of distributed devices. With access to any data, an algorithm, sensor, or actuator can then operate as if it were a separate system that somehow "works as one" with all the other systems. What game does it change? Well, we run over 1500 designs, including most of the US and allies Navy surface ships, the Western Grid balancing system, GE Healthcare's hos- pital device architecture, and even Canada's air traffic control system. All of these are far more intelligent than they could otherwise be because smart algorithms can reliably control distributed devices. It's a very horizontal basic technology. How is your organization cHanging tHe game witHin your industry sector?

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